Contributor: Bob Smithouser

“Miracle on 34th Street” features the Oscar-winning performance of Edmund Gwenn as Santa Claus, and a young Natalie Wood as the child who longs to believe in him.

Are you sure you wanna see dead people? Read our review, it’ll help you make up your mind.

MTV vixen Alicia Silverstone stars as Cher, a popular, wealthy, superficial, Beverly Hills mall rat used to manipulating her way through day-to-day life.

Movies based on the sci-fi stories of Philip K. Dick have either blasted their way into cultural consciousness or crashed and burned with dynamic fury. What will time tell about this one?

Save the Last Dance provides the bait for the Wayans’ crass spoof, which also riffs on Hairspray, Step Up, Stomp the Yard, High School Musical, You Got Served, Little Miss Sunshine and Dreamgirls.

On the eve of the 20th century, classic characters from literature are recruited to thwart a megalomaniac ready to light the fuse on global war.

John Travolta plays the archangel as a celestial hedonist determined to gorge on worldly pleasures during his final trip to earth.

Bobby Bowfinger is a wannabe film director/producer. Desperate for a movie that will make him a “player” in Hollywood’s exclusive fraternity of big-shot power brokers, Bowfinger resorts to an elaborate con.

A sequel-filled summer has begun with this mummy-filled caper. And it’s equally violent and more spiritually bankrupt than the original.

Jack Ryan’s back. This time it’s 1992 and rogue fascists want to spark a full-scale nuclear exchange between the U.S. and Russia.

If Hollywood had an All-Star Game, it would be this movie. It’s a new multistar vehicle about a team of con men set to take on Vegas.

This movie combines state-of-the-art technology with Neo-Pagan theology for a summer sci-fi hit that’s part escapist fun, part spiritual counterfeit.

With winter’s fury bearing down, a colorful convoy of prehistoric creatures begins migrating south.

Should it be “love thy neighbor” or “fear thy neighbor”? According to the makers of the psychological thriller “Arlington Road,” the latter.

Written by Phil Beauman and Buddy Johnson, the same team that crafted the obscene ‘Scary Movie,’ this comedy builds on the basic plot from ‘She’s All That.’